Alternate Cover Edition For B00C84LFM8It S 2011 On The Eastern Seaboard Of The United States The Place Is Atlantic City A Sweeping Longitudinal Metropolis Rebuilt Following Widespread Devastation In 1984 Superhumans Are Not Only Real, They Re Human All Too Human, As Nietzsche Would Say.Zephyr Is A Novel Alt.superhero Adventure Influenced By Postliterary Writing And Sturgeon S Law The Style Is Cynical, Cinematic And Systematically Against Standard Expectations Of The Genre Imagine If Bret Easton Ellis S American Psycho Was About Costumed Vigilantes Rather Than Stockbrokers And You Have Half An Idea.Zephyr Tells The Story Of A Major, If Somewhat Jaded Superhero In An Alternate Universe Where New York City Has Been Abandoned And The Beatles Were A Superhero Team Zephyr Is A Regular Guy, But With Powers, And It S Easy To Wonder If His Life Might Have Been Better Without Them As Supervillains And Other Problems That Only Superhumans Can Deal With Derail His Efforts Handling Life.In Phase Two, Zephyr Delves Deeper Into The Mystery Of His Parentage As His Secret Life Starts To Unravel Just As He Is Getting His New Sentinels Hero Group Off The Ground His Adventures Take Him From The Sprawling Megalopolis Of Atlantic City To Rural France, Parallel Earths And Beyond As He Searches For His Father, The Apocalyptic Doomsday Man John Lennon From The Defunct Superhero Group The Beatles.